What are the Means of Grace?

White Horse Inn

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Grace, Scripture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, God, Knowledge, Christ, Gospel, Jesus, Faith, Belief, Religion, Christian, History, Theology, Bible, Reformation, Horton, Discipleship

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🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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When new converts are brought into the church, they are often loaded up with the need to read the Bible, pray, practice repentance, and get into the community—but equally vital to spiritual health is a right understanding of and participation in the means of grace. In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss how the means of grace are used for our sanctification and why they are central to life and identity in the church.

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0:00.0	Yes, justification is a one time proclaimed thing, but the justification then defines the
0:09.0	life of the Christians so that we're constantly living on forgiveness, always needing the
0:13.5	gracious favor of God towards us.
0:16.3	It's not like you're saved and now you'd better get to work, but rather the gospel is the
0:21.1	thing that sustains us in the faith.
0:22.4	We never outgrow the gospel.
0:23.9	I think I heard you say one time, Mike, we don't outgrow the gospel.
0:26.8	We grow further into the gospel, right?
0:29.8	Often the Christian life, if we ever want to talk in such language, is created, sustained
0:35.4	and enacted by the gifts that God gives to us, not by our performance or our discipline
0:40.8	or something like that.
0:42.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:43.0	You know, Walter, I kind of triggered my own memory of growing up where it wasn't
0:49.4	church unless we had an alter call, but it was church every week when we didn't have
0:58.6	the Lord's Supper.
1:00.1	And here's something Christ actually instituted.
1:03.4	This is what's so interesting.
1:04.8	We can disagree about Roman Catholic views of the sacrament.
1:11.4	Lutherans can get the Lord's Supper all wrong.
1:13.8	Go ahead.
1:14.8	No, no.
1:15.8	I can't wait to see where this goes.
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